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HINGE. APPLICATION FILED FEB. 25. mm.

Patented Aug. 12, 1919;

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UNITED STATES PATENT onnion.

EDWARD ARMSTRONG- BELLOW, OF CODSALL, ENGLAND, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF, TO

KYNOGH, LIMITED, OF BRITAIN.

WITTON, BIRMINGHAM, ENGLANnA COMPANY on GREAT HINGE.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Aug. 12, 1919.

Application filed February 25, 1919. Serial No. 279,165.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD ARMSTRONG BELLOW, a subject of the Kingdom of Great Britain, residing at High Elms, Codsall, in the county of Stafiord, England, ironmonger, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hinges, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to hinges of the T- type, and comprises the combination of the T and butt type of hinge, the object of the improvements being to provide a hinge which is stronger than the butt hinge and is better adapted to resist the weather than the ordinary T-hinge, the improvements comprising the formation of the T part of the hinge of the wire while the other part of the hinge is of the butt type.

In order that this invention may be clearly understood and readily carried into practice, reference may be had to the appended explanatory sheet of drawings, upon which Figure 1 illustrates in front elevation a hinge constructed according to the present invention.

Fig. 2 illustrates in plan the hinge shown in Fig. l, and indicates its position in relation to tWo relatively hinged parts.

In a convenient embodiment of this invention, the T-part of the hinge is formed from a single length of wire, the center of which is bent to form an eye a at the tail of the T for receiving one of the fixing screws, two parts 6 of the wire being arranged to converge toward the axis of the hinge, at which point they extend outwardly in a common line to form the pivot portions 0 of the hinge. Outwardly beyond these pivot portions the wire is bent in a direction away from the axis of the hinge in or substantially in the plane containing the parts I) to points at which the extremities of the wire terminate in eyes (Z for receiving fastening members.

The other part of the hinge comprisesa plate 6 of the butt hinge type suitably perforated for the fastening members and having at each end of its one side sockets 7 which are bent from the sheet metal of which the plate 6 is composed, and which sockets embrace the pivot portions of the T-member.

As shown in Fig. 2, the parts'of the T- member adjacent to the pivot parts 0 thereof are bent slightly outwardly from the main plane of said Tmember so that the said pivot parts may be embraced by the sockets f, and the rear faces of the plate 0 and T-member may thus be coplanar.

The cross-section of the wire of the T- part is preferably circular, but the eyes of the T-part which receive the fixing screws may if desired be flattened, as for instance in a press, as also the other parts of the wire of the T, except the pivot parts.

What I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. A hinge, comprising a T-member made from a single length'of wire bent at a midlength position to form an eye and having converging arms which at the axis of the hinge are bent into alinement to form pivot portions, the wire extending beyond the pivot portions and being formed at its extremities with eyes for the reception of fastening members.

2. A hinge comprising a T-member made from a single length of wire bent at a midposition to form an eye and having converging arms which at the axis of the hinge are bent into alinement to form pivot portions, and a sheet metal plate forming the other member of the hinge and having sockets bent therefrom, which sockets receive the pivot portions of the T-member.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two witnesses.

I EDWARD ARMSTRONG BELLOW.

Witnesses: ARTHUR H. BROWN, EDGAR N. WHEELER.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

. Washington, D. G. 

